On Jun 28, 2010, at 10:03 AM, zfs-discuss-requ...@opensolaris.org wrote:
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> I'm on snv 111b. I attempted to get smartmontools
> workings, but it doesn't seem to want to work as
> these are all sata drives.
Have you tried using '-d sat,12' when using smartmontools?
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> Hi all.
>
> Im pretty new to the whole OpenSolaris thing, i've
> been doing a bit of research but cant find anything
> on what i need.
>
> I am thinking of making myself a home file server
> running OpenSolaris with ZFS and utilizing Raid/Z
>
> I was wondering if there is anything i can get th
> I am doing something very similar. I backup to external USB's, which I
> leave connected to the server for obviously days at a time ... zfs send
> followed by scrub. You might want to consider eSATA instead of USB. Just a
> suggestion. You should be able to go about 4x-6x faster than 27MB/s.
more cost effective to just build a new
system with newer and better technology. It should take me a long while to
fill up 9TB, but there was a time when I thought a single gigabyte was a
ridiculous amount of storage too.
Eric
On Apr 8, 2010, at 11:21 PM, Erik Trimble wrote:
> Eric An
I thought I might chime in with my thoughts and experiences. For starters, I
am very new to both OpenSolaris and ZFS, so take anything I say with a grain of
salt. I have a home media server / backup server very similar to what the OP
is looking for. I am currently using 4 x 1TB and 4 x 2TB dr
It depends a bit on how you set up the drives really. You could make one raidz
vdev of 8 drives, losing one of them for parity, or you could make two raidz
vdevs of 4 drives each and lose two drives for parity (one for each vdev). You
could also do one raidz2 vdev of 8 drives and lose two driv
I went through this determination when setting up my pool. I decided to go
with mirrors instead of raidz2 after considering the following:
1. Drive capacity in my box. At most, I can realistically cram 10 drives in
my box and I am not interested in expanding outside of the box. I could go
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